In a message dated 9/14/2009 1:51:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl writes:
company. However *every* ISV's license agreement I met needed negotiation. Not only for the price, but first of all terms and conditions. Sometimes it was small change, but sometimes not. >> IBM's billing systems used to be just the pits. Dups, retreads, and drops were common practice. When they outsourced marketing to third party it got really slovenly with third party contracts and more serial numbers for services. The cash cows, confusion and pricing did a lot to drive us away from IBM top to bottom. Third party have been caveat emptor for ages. John Anderson started the isvcosts list several years ago it's an end-user only forum to note problems and concerns. Seems like today management by magazine and instant gratification supercede technical competence and engineering synergy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
